> Yes, just what the government needs,free reign to come into your house and decide whether or not your boxer, weimeraner, or catahoula looks enough like a pit to be carted off and destroyed.
They don’t need to come into your home, in fact the Gummint doesn’t need to be involved very much at all. All they need to do is declare Pit Bulls to be Contraband, and announce a Bounty. Your neighbors will do the rest.
The fear of lawsuits will keep your neighbors from getting it too wrong: for example, the weimaraner (the purple-silver-looking sorta-skinny Labrador-looking dog) and the boxer (looks like it chases parked cars) or even more tragically the German Shepherd (nothing looks as good as a German Shepherd). Your neighbors all know what a Pit Bull looks and behaves like, so they will be careful to get it right.
And if they occasionally get it wrong, sorry no bounty plus the owner sues them for the illegal killing of his pet Shar Pei.
A beautifully-simple system that is self-maintaining and self-policing.
It’s so cute that you think the government will trust the judgement of it’s citizens to defend themselves. :-)
No, it’ll be handled by the city, with lots of help from the Humane Society and the experts at PETA, just like every other pet related ordinance we allow.
>And if they occasionally get it wrong, sorry no bounty plus the owner sues them for the illegal killing of his pet Shar Pei.<
Shar Pei’s are China’s dog fighters. Pit bulls, if you will. Why do you think they have all those wrinkles? It’s so the other dog can’t get a good hold, and the Shar Pei can turn in its skin to strike back.
They should be banned. /sarc